| Updated: 6/28/2010 8:33 am |
Published: 6/28/2010 5:57 am
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(AP) June 28- Senator Robert Byrd, the longest serving member of the United States Congress, has died.
A spokesman for the 92-year-old Democrat from the state of West Virginia said Byrd had been hospitalized since last week. At first he was thought to be suffering from heat exhaustion and severe dehydration but other medical conditions developed.
On Sunday, his condition was described as "serious."
Byrd was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1952 and to the U.S. Senate in 1958. He has suffered from ill health in recent years but retained his reputation for securing millions of federal dollars for his home state.
